Quotes About Birth

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

Women are prepared to suffer for love; it's written into their birth certificates.

A woman who was about Jacaranda's age approached them. She was what Jacaranda thought of as "one of those Vassar graduates who can spell from birth.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"

The individual is reminded that in him, no less than in the Archetypal Universe, real life must be born if real life is to be lived.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.

I think that I was born on a day God was fast asleep. And whatever happened after my birth was nothing but dreamless ignorance.

What is this thing that makes us human? Birth, heartbreak, a desire for safety and order? Is it anger, shame, or fear? What we desire is unattainable and although we know it, we keep striving for it. Sisyphus, the Greek god, and all that.

Como si hablara con un niño) Te diré, niño mío, que sí, Tronchada y rota soy para ti ¡Cómo me duele esta cintura donde tendrás primera cuna! ¿Cuándo mi niño vas a venir?

Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

If a cat were to give birth in an oven, would you call what she gave birth to kittens or bread?

Already the messages of citizens were flashed along the wires of the world. . . . To those multitudes, not as yet in the wombs of humanity but surely engenderable there, he would give the word: Man and woman, out of you comes the nation that is to come, the lightening of your masses in travail.

Yo os digo: es preciso tener todavía caos dentro de sí para poder dar a luz una estrella danzarina. Extracto de Así habló Zaratustra, de Friedrich Nietzsche, filósofo alemán (1844-1900)

I have it on good authority that I was born in Utah.

To die is man's finest action - and what might be his worst? To be born.

My good lady,' interrupted Clent, 'are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of his nativity?' Seconds passed. A beetle flew into Mistress Leap's hair while she stared at Clent, then it struggled free and flew off again. 'Did you lie about when he was born?' translated Mosca.

From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.

As much as we hate to admit it, we are sinners by birth. We are also sinners by choice. We are also sinners by practice.

BORN TO CRAWL, REBORN TO FLY

Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.

Friends are born, not made. At least it is so with the higher sort. The marriage of souls is a heavenly mystery, which we cannot explain, and which we need not try to explain.

Love is born among groves and singing-birds.

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.